leisesprecher @ leisesprecher @feddit.org

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I use Xanax, BTW.

I get your point, but have you looked into the power demands of data centers? They already have room filling batteries for power outages, but those are just enough to keep the lights on while the diesel generators start.

Covid hit just around the time where people around me (and myself, obviously) hit 30, got kids and settled down.

That means, covid turned into a "getting old" speed run for me. Before covid, there was something going on each weekend, a party here, a gathering of friends there, it was almost always at least something going on. When the lock down was unlocked up for real in 2022, most people had partners, didn't want to go out anymore or do anything at all, some kids were on their way or just arrived.

It felt like a development of 5-10 years was compressed into one or two years.

That's not "readily available", and it's certainly not given voluntarily by users, it's often straight up illegal. That's a very different case.

But honestly, it's a pretty badass death compared to "died of cancer at 64".

I can't say that I'm surprised.

None. There is no model that can output anything even remotely usable on that tiny amount of RAM and certainly not using the few CPU cycles your vps has to offer.

Both have potential revenue streams used to justify the cost.

You sure about that? AI in any semi-professional environment uses proper AI accelerators with loads of ram and not overpriced consumer cards. And that ignores the fact that AI never produced any relevant revenue stream.

Miners, do they even exist anymore? Bitcoin is ASIC land and ethereum switched to proof of stake?

What is competitive about textures? Is eSports an arts contest now? You can't seriously suggest that having better textures makes a gamer better at playing counter strike.

4K high FPS is exactly the kind of useless numbers game I'm talking about. There's a point at which humans don't see differences anyway. Especially in those super high competitive games you also have pretty fast paced movements, you can't see texture quality.

Yes, if compared in a lab environment the newer card will probably create a better image, but we're pretty close to "virgin blood infused speaker wires for audiophiles" territory.

Isn't that pretty much a thing of the past? This meme is maybe true for Facebook, but most sub 40 people don't use that anyway and the "public diary" days are also pretty over. Sure, you can stitch together a lot from geolocating Instagram posts and LinkedIn information, but it's not like it's the searchable database Facebook was in 2012.

I honestly don't understand why people keep buying these. It's not like games look that much better compared to cheaper models.

And what's really surprising to me: who exactly pays those scalper prices? Who can justify shelling out 1-2000 currency units for a (part of a) toy?

The entire industry lost its direction. It's only about some artificial numbers go up and no one even tries to come up with a reason for those numbers.

Businesses (at least the larger ones) replace their hardware every few years anyway. They don't care whether their new Optiplexes run Windows 10 or 11 and most hardware bought since 2022 probably has Windows 11 installed already, probably all since 2020 supports it. So there's hardly a problem here. (Btw I'm taking the management view here, I know that it's a pain to actually deploy, but that doesn't matter to management).

That would be a way to get rid of German comments, sure. But it's also another layer of hassle. Usually, the comments are just a few lines to explain weird behavior.

The naming problem is nearly unsolvable, though. Unless you want to map every concept to a random string, but that's not feasible either.

That depends, actually.

In general, I try to keep everything English, since we do have some international colleagues.

However, I work with a bunch of projects that have some legal/administrative background and certain words have very precisely defined meanings, that can't be easily translated (at least not in one word, so that the next guy can back-translate the word). So in these cases, I sometimes write comments that explain the domain problem in German, because it's much much easier and whoever touches that code better understand the German terms or screw everything up. Unfortunately class and method names are often a weird language mix.

It's not a perfect solution, but given the legal complexities behind seemingly simple words, it's the best of the worst.

I blame the Jedi council!

Serbians are from serbia, not Siberia.

The new Intel chips already addressed that, at least for notebook class devices.

Realistically, there wasn't really a reason for Intel and AMD to be super power efficient, simply because there wasn't any competition for quite a while. It took Apple Silicon to show how powerful arm can be and how easy the transition could be.

Post a photo of a virus and let's get this debate settled in sharia court once and for all!

You don't have to get all philosophical, since the value art is almost by definition debatable.

These models can't do basic logic. They already fail at this. And that's actually relevant to corpos if you can suddenly convince a chatbot to reduce your bill by 60% because bears don't eat mangos or some other nonsensical statement.